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Photograph inside a temple shrine hall at a Nithyananda Dhyanapeetam International Peace Day event. A banner above the doorway shows a portrait of a smiling elderly man in an orange turban and robe, labelled "Nithyananda Dhyanapeetam, A world wide movement for meditation" and "International Peace Day, September 21, 2006". A priest in a white dhoti with an orange shawl raises a lit oil lamp (aarti) before a garlanded deity murti in a gold-framed shrine doorway. Black stone statues flank the doorway, and a golden pedestal is in the right foreground. Several seated devotees in the foreground watch, including a child with a long braid in a pink-patterned outfit. The aarti is an oil lamp, not a fire pit. Five or more physical people are visible, and the priest's face is turned away from the camera.

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